Today I moved from my "127 machine" (localhost) to an Amazon EC2 server.

First I tried the Amazon Linux AMI (32-bit) micro, but it was to
difficult to get GTK working.
Package manager was yum, which is nice, but a few packages I needed
weren't available, decided to check another AMI out.

Found SUSE AMI (32-bit) on micro, package manager is zypper, and works
like a charm.
GTK was already installed on this one. Everything is up and running.

I've used Debian for a lot of years for personal use and at work, and
henceforth became accustomed to Debian.
I'm actually finding out SUSE isn't that bad either!

On my local machine GTK was ugly by default, so I immediately changed
the theme to something less hideous.
On this SUSE AMI the default GTK is pretty fancy, although the fonts
were missing ;)

What annoys me is that forwarding X11 over the internet is slower than I
expected. Editting text inside the forwarded "ArticleManager" isn't
particularly fast. Still love my weird blogging system though!